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Drug and alcohol prevention programs that consider the community as the client system may be most helpful in reaching Native American youth, according to a recent article published in Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly.
E. Daniel Edwards, DSW, and colleagues from the University of Utah, say that community oriented programs are especially useful when working with Native Americans, who have "traditionally made substantial commitments to the protection and enhancement of their youth, families, elders, communities and tribes."
The authors advocate a "logic model" for working with Native American communities, in which the community is involved at each step in a process …